journalism
BBC ‘Digging Its Own Grave’ By Banning Global Warming Skeptics

The other day, a nonprofit called The Institute of Art and Ideas interviewed Benny Peiser...

movies
“Guardians of the Galaxy”: Another Conservative Pop Culture Triumph!

 Jonah Goldberg, that pop cultural savant, recently wrote a piece called, “Our Conserva...

humor-2
Inconvenient ‘Sharknado’ Films Tell Important Truth

Writing in the American Spectator, Daniel Flynn argues (tongue in cheek) that the SyFY Net...

music
The Empty Hearts: Power Pop for Summer Fun

Are you looking for some late-summer, top-down, hard-driving power pop? If so, do yourse...

manners-and-morals
Blacking Up on the Road to Auschwitz

British writer Sean Gabb analyzes the logic behind another political correctness protes...

movies
Magic in the Moonlight

Magic in the Moonlight, Woody Allen's latest flick, reprises some of his perennial theme...

manners-and-morals
Columnist: Panhandlers Are Stingy

Writing in the Indianapolis Star, attorney and political commentator Abdul-Hakim Shabazz t...

manners-and-morals
Dungy Defended, Media Blasted

Addressing the media "fertilizer storm" over former Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapol...

television
‘True Blood’ Producers Failed in Bid to Embarrass Palin

The producers of the HBO TV series True Blood, who have made their show into a long-term, ...

original-fiction
A Conversation

“Jonas just texted me. His plane is due in at 1 a.m. He asks us to join him for dinner a...

movies
The Real (but Limited) Appeal of James Garner’s Antiheroes

Next Monday, Turner Classic Movies presents a special tribute to the late James Garner, w...

books
Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration Between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics by Timothy Stanley

  The problem with a book like this is that it can easily overestimate the importa...

movies
A Summer’s Tale (Conte d’ete) by Eric Rohmer

  This 1996 film has at last been given a theatrical release in the United States....

culture101
It’s No Mystery Why Culture Talk Has Become So Belligerent

In an essay that more properly belongs in the newspaper's "Duh!" section (which doesn't ...

uncategorized
What Hath God to Do With Economics? Nothing, Says New York Times

Dave Brat, an economics professor at Randolph-Macon College, turned the political world up...

books
Review: ‘The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade by Philip Jenkins’

Later this year, the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the First World War will ...

manners-and-morals
Updated: Oldman Denounces Hollywood Political Correctness, Hypocrisy

The acclaimed actor and self-described libertarian Gary Oldman comes out with guns blazi...

uncategorized
Do Something Truly Counter Cultural: Write a Letter!

Have you ever written a letter? Do you even know what that is? Answers to these questions ...

commerce
Hillary’s Literary Flop: Another Reason for Democrats to Hate Free Markets

Hillary Clinton's memoir, Hard Choices, has failed the one test even the Obama White H...

uncategorized
The Il-Liberal Power Elite

As we all know and see consistently in public discourse, the liberals/progressives of our ...

uncategorized
Universities to Christian Groups: You Are Not Welcome Here

It’s hard not to think, as an evangelical Christian, that America’s cultural elites wo...

movies
Cold in July

  It is 1989 in Texas and Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall), a small business owner, ...

culture101
Ten Best TV Comedies Set in NYC

The NY Post recently published a list of the 10 greatest TV comedies set in New York City....

uncategorized
Actor Morgan Freeman: Economic Inequality Has Nothing to Do with Race

"Why would race have anything to do with it?" Freeman asks. "Stick your mind to what you w...

culture-and-economics
Kickstarter Gives in After Successful Crowdfunding of Gosnell Film at Indiegogo

The online crowdfunding site Kickstarter has been brought to heel by documentary filmmak...

culture-and-economics
Real Genius

An interesting article in today’s Wall Street Journal argues that America’s educationa...

music
Dave Clark Five, Beatles, Other ’60s Pop Music Performers on TV Tonight

The excellent 1960s pop group the Dave Clark Five will be featured tonight on Turner Cla...

books
Fifteen Impossibilities: A Book Review

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne — By Edward D. Hoch — Int...

scitech
Curry Interview Indicates State of Climate Debate

The Australian magazine Quadrant has an excellent interview with climatologist Judith Curr...

movies
‘Ida’: Not Quite a Masterpiece

When the film Ida opens, Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), an orphan raised in a convent, is n...

uncategorized
“Madame Tussaud”: The French Revolution is Depressing

I’ve always been fascinated by the French Revolution, probably because I’ve always see...

television
Advice for Those Contemplating Watching ‘Penny Dreadful’

If you're a Showtime subscriber who's wondering whether to watch the new series Penny Drea...

television
700 Sundays

Anyone looking for funny and poignant television should not miss Billy Crystal's 700 Sunda...